More than a butt touch

Management

Crit

Well, this is a funny little bird. Tortuous plot, tortuous mood, and with all the twists it's bound to take a wrong turn from time to time. At points it tiptoes along the quirky-for-quirk's-sake border, but a smart script by Stephen Belber (who also directed) and the unfailing charm of Steve Zahn and Jennifer Aniston keep us in the game, sometimes against our better judgment, and almost always against our sense of logic. As Aniston's character, Sue, says at one point, "That's not how life works." Your point being?

Trailers

Most of there I forgot to record yesterday, but I think I can remember everything: Adam, LeBron, Ali, plus lots of love:

• Adam--Hugh Dancy is the latest entrant in the Afflicted Guy Oscar Sweepstakes: he has Asperger's; she (Rose Byrne) is willing to work with him on that.
• More Than a Game--Documentary about James's celebrated high school team.
• Soul Power--Doc on the concert organized to capitalize on the 1974 Ali-Foreman Rumble in the Jungle; James Brown, Celia Cruz, and B. B. King, among others.
• Paper Heart--I'm confused: is this or is it not a documentary? Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi fall in love, or pretend to.
• (500) Days of Summer--Another you-really-love-me-despite-what-you-think story, this one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt trying to convince Zooey Deschanel.
• Easy Virtue--Never thought I'd hear myself say this, but Jessica Biel actually seems as if she might be able to handle the role of the new American wife considered a slut by the proper English family headed by Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth. Based on a Noël Coward play silently filmed in 1928 by a young Brit only recently repatriated from Germany.